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A HUNTER SHOOTS A BEAR

Thursday, September 2, 2010

I just got to watch what seems to be the next most hit viral video on internet after Arcade’s Fire ‘The Wilderness Downtown’. Tipp-ex’s ‘A Hunter Shoots a Bear’ is an interactive video posted on Youtube, where you get to choose what happens with the bear after being shot by the hunter! Whatever you type, [...]

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NICE NICHE

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

There are so many odd things to be found on the internet, it’s just impossible to find that stuff without having been given the proper links. The Guardian’s weekly listings magazine The Guide which comes free with the paper on Saturdays honors these oddities with a full page of reviews every week. They’re introducing interesting [...]

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Z100

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Today would have been Konrad Zuse’s 100th birthday who built the world’s first freely programmable computer Z1 in 1936 and the first  turing-complete computer Z3 in 1941. He didn’t declare it magic, nor did it fit in a pocket. But it served (not only) Zuse very well who claimed he only invented the computer because [...]

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DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

While reading about Web visuals I came across this article from designer and critic Max Bruinsma, for Eye magazine, about The 1st International Browserday, a design student competition which took place in 1998, in Amsterdam, based on the concept of reinventing Netscape’s browser, from its roots to visuals.
The article features some of the 38 designs [...]

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COMING SOON TO THE WEB: MORE FONTS

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Despite its promise of horizonless opportunity, the web has proven to be a desert of diversity. Aside from a few diehard fringe-dwellers, the world uses one search engine, one encyclopedia, one video channel and one social networking site.
Typographically, the web has been equally limited. Web designers have been forced to use only those fonts which [...]

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The evolution of empathy

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Likey.

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The Carceral Archipelago

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Bentham’s panopticon is the perfect architectural manifestation of power and discipline – it can operate as a school, an asylum, a factory or a prison and allows each inhabitant to be surveilled so completely that they even start watching themselves.
Sound familiar?
Facebook’s privacy policy takes 5,830 words to tell you that they own you. This graph [...]

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WEPAD

Monday, April 12, 2010

Although rumour has it that an American jounalist destroyed an iPad after more than 90 (!) hours of non-stop-use, our friends from Cupertino sold so many hundredthousands. They will somewhat be rivalled by a Berlin-based company offering the WePad who state that their device will have useful connections, like the good old USB! [...]

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MAKE SOME MONEY

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sir Richard Branson, Chief Executive Everything of the Virgin Group donated the first ten flights of his recent project Virgin Galactic to mono.kultur to raise some proper sponsoring money. Galactic Money, or Virgin Sponsoring.
Check out here.

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Augmented reality for a better life

Thursday, April 1, 2010

A while back I posted a video showing a vision of ‘augmented reality’, in which ordinary people can earn money by allowing themselves to be immersed in advertising material.

But as compelling as dystopian fantasies can be, it is wonderful to see technology put to anti-commercial uses once in a while. The Artvertiser is [...]

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